This isn’t incredible because it’s from a small unknown developer, or because it had no marketing, but because it’s a game with no gameplay.
Banana is free to play and features a banana in the middle on a yellow screen.Except there is something else. Every three hours a ‘Banana Skin’ will drop into your Steam account’s inventory.The majority of these bananas are worth just $0.03 on the marketplace, but occasionally players will pull a rare banana worth a lot more.
Currently the most expensive Banana Skins are just $0.19, but people have reported them selling for a lot more. The highest price someone has paid for a Banana Skin appears to be $1,345 , obviously hoping that they can later sell it for more.People are calling it a new type of NFT, as the Banana Skins have no real use or value other than what people are willing to pay for them.“Since the game takes basically 1% to no resources of your PC, people are abusing up to 1000 alternative accounts in order to get rarer drops or at least drops in bulk.
The developer is currently working with Valve to stop the bot accounts, but everything about this game still seems a bit … well bananas.ON THE MEND
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